Thursday, November 1, 2007

The Photo Class Interviews the Mural Class

WHAT ARE YOU DOING?

"I'm sketching for the final draft of the mural."-Michelle"Helping students develop ideas." -Ben"Getting images from different people to get ideas." -Denise"To incorporate the drawings I saw from the museum into the mural." -Dilyon"Working on graffiti." -Thomas"I am working on a mural piece." -Lisette

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THE PROJECT?

"It's a good project because we get to work with spray cans and materials, and it's a good chance to work with colors." -Michelle"It's good, lots of ideas." -Ben"It's good because I've never done something like this before." -Denise"It's coming along, it has many good ideas." -Dilyon"I think it's good because I get to do graffiti." -Thomas"It's fun!" -Lisette

WHAT WAS THE BEST THING YOU'VE DONE?

"Sketching was fun." -Michelle"Brainstorming and developing ideas for the mural." -Ben"Spray painting for the first time." -Denise"To go see the museum and working on the mural individually." -Dilyon"Spray painting." -Thomas

HOW DID YOU GET YOUR INSPIRATION TO DO THE MURAL?

"From the museum and daily life." -Michelle"We got inspired from each other" -Ben"I started drawing when I was little and I kept going. [I was inspired by] the stuff I saw in the museum." -Dilyon"Because I like spray painting." -Thomas

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Welcome to One of Working Playground's Network ArtSpace Blogs!

What is This?This blog is a part of an after-school digital photography and mural My New York model program at New Design High School.

Essential QuestionHow can we interpret to re-invent?

Foundation StatementHow do we learn history? How do the ways that we learn history change what we think about it? Which incidents become Important Historical Events? We will complete a commission for the Tenement Museum with Ben Rojas’ mural class. Working as professional artists, we will use photography to research neighborhood history and the museum. We will use our photographs as source material for a mural that will reflect the Lower East Side’s immigration story as well as the museum’s programs. The mural will be painted on several metal pull-down gates at the museum and shared on this blog!

After presenting the mural design to the museum, we will photograph the neighborhood’s immigrants and interview them about places that tell their stories.